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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO | 25 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO b/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO index 06c94f20ecf8..5d3a337c8702 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/TODO @@ -27,3 +27,28 @@ - i.MX7: all of the above, since it uses the imx media core - i.MX7: use Frame Interval Monitor + +- imx7-media-csi: Restrict the supported formats list to the SoC version. + + The imx7 CSI bridge can be configured to sample pixel components from the Rx + queue in single (8bpp) or double (16bpp) component modes. Image format + variants with different sample sizes (ie YUYV_2X8 vs YUYV_1X16) determine the + pixel components sampling size per each clock cycle and their packing mode + (see imx7_csi_configure() for details). + + As the imx7 CSI bridge can be interfaced with different IP blocks depending on + the SoC model it is integrated on, the Rx queue sampling size should match + the size of the samples transferred by the transmitting IP block. + + To avoid mis-configurations of the capture pipeline, the enumeration of the + supported formats should be restricted to match the pixel source transmitting + mode. + + Example: i.MX8MM SoC integrates the CSI bridge with the Samsung CSIS CSI-2 + receiver which operates in dual pixel sampling mode. The CSI bridge should + only expose the 1X16 formats variant which instructs it to operate in dual + pixel sampling mode. When the CSI bridge is instead integrated on an i.MX7, + which supports both serial and parallel input, it should expose both variants. + + This currently only applies to YUYV formats, but other formats might need + to be handled in the same way. |